Improvement in scouring-boards



- G. W. CURRY.

Sooliri'ng-Board.

Patented Witnesses:

Aug 20-, 181s.

Inventor:

wd/f/m MPETERS; PHOa'O-LITHOGRAFREH, W'ASHING D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. CURRY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVE MENT IN SCOURlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,257, dated August 20, 1878; application filed March 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. CURRY, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a scouring-Board; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawin g, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved scouring and polishing board; and it consists in the peculiar arrangement of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing hereinbefore mentioned, the figure is a perspective view of my improved scouring-board.

A is the bed-plate or bottom of my board. It has secured to it around its edges the slat B, sides B B, and end board, H, all of a height exceeding the thickness of said bottom A, so as to form a projection around the same. The sides B B are increased in width on one end, so as to produce, in conjunction with the cover 0 and partition D, two pockets, E E. Centrally upon the bottom A is placed an inclined projection, F, the front end of which is beveled or inclined at G. The bottom or end board, H, is inclined or at an obtuse angle to the board A, so as to form, when the device is placed against a vertical wall, &c., a support for the same, which, in relationto the center of gravity of the apparatus, is so located as to prevent it from falling down.

The purpose of this device is to furnish a neat, substantial, and convenient receptacle for retaining, polishing, and scouring substances, and the cloths, rags, 850., used in connection therewith, and to enable forks and knives, &c., to be readily cleaned upon this board.

To this end the polishing and scouring material, and the cloth, chamois-skin, &c., used for applying the same, are placed into the pockets E E, and the knives, forks, 850., upon the projection F, the forward end of which is inclined, to enable the knife being conveniently held in position.

When not in use, the apparatus may be suspended by the aperture K in the board A, or placed in an upright position, the polishing and scouring material being always retained in the pockets E E.

The board hereinbefore described may be made of either wood or metal, and forms a very convenient and desirable utensil of the household, and it can be manufactured and sold at such an exceedingly low figure as to be within the reach of all housekeepers, &c.

On account of its being very light and containing within itself all the necessary means for polishing and scouring, it may be carried about with the greatest ease, and the clean.- ing performed at any place.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States of Americe?- The hereinbefore-described polishing and scouring board, consisting of the bottom A, provided with the projecting slat B, sides B B, and end board, H, the covering 0, partition D, and bed F, with its forward end beveled at G, substantially as and for the use and purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. W. CURRY. [n s.]

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK, FRANK Hmson. 

